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Article: ESTONIA: EVERY THIRD PERSON POTENTIAL VICTIM OF DISCRIMINATION
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- December 7, 2006
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Amnesty International issued the following news release:
Amnesty International welcomes the openness of the Estonian authorities to discuss one of the country's long-standing human rights issues - the discrimination and exclusion from everyday life that a third of the population often experiences. These people are the Russian-speaking linguistic minority who face limited access to the labour market and who have restricted minority rights.
Amnesty International's delegates have presented the organization's report, Estonia: Linguistic minorities in Estonia: Discrimination must end,to government officials. They have called on the authorities of Estonia to improve access to employment for ...